We’re excited to announce Ali Breland joining The Atlantic to report on disinformation and extremism, and Julie Beck, Ellen Cushing, and Matteo Wong moving to staff writers. Read their work and more about these moves:

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incredible essay by Elena Dudum on the “fiction of Palestinians’ nonexistence” and her family’s compulsion to build an archive to preserve Palestinian history
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I get it about the aristotle and grand theft auto lyrics but so high school bangs, sorry, and I want an entire 90s-alt rock coded taylor album now

at a HOSPITAL

“mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly found stripped naked with their hands tied, prompting renewed concerns about possible war crimes”

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on the phrase 'mass grave' and its recent history thestopgap.net/data-concernin…

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feeling more like a Real Author than ever before as I make a transfer from savings that is truly shocking, revolting, bloodcurdling, so I can pay taxes on my book advance

'Multibillionaires make their fortunes using the resources of a broader society... [yet] they are able to make unilateral decisions that shape society according to their desires, without that same society having much input at all,' Christine Emba writes

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oh wahhh third places are disappearing everyone is lonely everything’s too expensive blah blah blah. a 40 is like 4 bucks and there are so many ditches and sewers and abandoned hospitals and playgrounds in this country. It’s time we all got serious about loitering.

Being 30 is a decrepit state from which no woman can recover. That's why I, sensibly, am 27

remember all those breathless videos about cuddly robotic seals and friendly waving humanoid robots and how they were supposedly going to revolutionize elder care? well, Stephanie H. Murray 's here to tell you why that didn't really happen: theatlantic.com/family/archive…